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Thursday, September 27, 2012

The great thing about card games is that you can have a pack of cards, a new sleep pad of papers, as well as a pencil in your pocket and be willing to play where ever you might be. Even though board games are great, they are a bejesus of your lot more challenging to handle about together with you, and you should typically need to teach the policies; together with card games, nevertheless, there are some classics that just about everybody knows.

Bears is a great instance; generally everyone knows how you can participate in it, as well as for those that never, it's easy to train. Minds can be another excellent introduction to the concept of trick-taking game titles, leading to more advanced games such as Spades (which utilizes an ordinary deck) along with Tichu (that will not).

Rummy is the one other old a single..better, it's actually a variety of equivalent games, in which players attempt to make pieces. Although simpler versions are easily played simply by actually children, more complex versions just like gin rummy are generally made a decision usually by ability, using experienced participants normally smashing new players.

Essentially the most popular card games nowadays, however, are comparing games. Although this group incorporates a various card games, the most notable would be the playing game titles: blackjack and also poker. Poker, needless to say, includes a amount of variants, from Texas Hold'Em to be able to Omaha in order to Deuce or Better Three-way Draw. Of these video games, people are usually rivaling to achieve the finest "hand" regarding cards, and customarily far better about whether their own hand will certainly beat that relating to the opposite players (poker) or perhaps the vendor (blackjack). From the time the actual growing market around the globe Series of Poker about ten years ago, these kinds of have become even more a part of everyday routine in America.

When you're gonna have a very baby, a baby shower is one of the routines that you ought to certainly not miss. This is the most exhilarating elements of giving birth. Aside from receiving a lot of presents for your baby, you can also celebrate what's promising of getting a baby together with your friends. This is also a method of obtaining anyone to get a lot more excited to the baby. A baby shower is somewhat split into numerous pieces and something ones will be actively playing the popular baby shower games. These are generally essentially games that are really intended to be played within this celebration that make the actual get together much more entertaining, entertaining and unforgettable.

In addition to the entertaining and enjoyment that this games bring, fortunately they are of great help for the parents-to-be. This really is making about the undeniable fact that there are game titles which examination the data with the parents-to-be in terms of the things that baby requires and how to properly manage their new baby. This way, the parents-to-be will even achieve more information and knowledge in relation to carrying a child. There are several varieties of games that you could look into or perhaps whomever arranges case. Picking out the games to be played throughout the actual shower may well be determined by a number of deciding factors like your gender of the baby, if your you're going to get twins/multiple babies or if perhaps you will embrace 1. Here are several of the very most popular baby shower games which can be taken into consideration.

"Guess the Baby Food" is amongst the mentioned games. From your name themselves, farm ville is about speculating the baby food which are positioned on a desk. There needs to be two groups when playing the game the other by one, each person in the two clubs should come forward to the table to be able to suppose the baby meals. This will likely not really sound extremely challenging, does it? The cruel component is the down line need to guess the baby foods using a blindfold. You will have someone who are usually in demand in giving the gamers while using baby foods to be able to imagine. The team that will acquire most of the appropriate responses will probably be stated because champion.

One other game to take into account is the "Baby Pictures". Evidently, mafia wars requires a great deal of images and this is really a exciting game to play. Essentially, you and everyone that happen to be participating in the baby shower ought to deliver his or her baby pictures. These kind of photos mustn't be to proven to various other guests to really make it very complicated. Each of the photos must be posted over a board and everybody will be presented a chance to create their guesses as to that's who owns that one image. Then your one who should be able to suppose almost all of the pictures will win.

Fun, don't you find it? As a result, it is best that you can prepare the baby shower properly you need to include a few baby shower games in your soul organizing. Besides the two online games that were mentioned above, you may also consider various other possible video games online pertaining to baby showers or question some of your pals for extra concepts.

Greetings! Welcome to another amazing week of Sam and Dan games! Last week we almost completed our goal of releasing both a 1v1 level and a story level but we didn't quite make it. I did release it yesterday night which is pretty close I guess. This week again we will attempt to do a Story levels among other things! We love to give you guys content and we love making it. We will also talk a little bit about the starting towns/cities/villages for the first 3 starters in Creature Universe TD. Sound good? Great! Let's get to it.

New Story Level This week we will finally get out of New Bark Town and into Route 29! You might have noticed that once you defeat a battle you aren't able to repeat this battle over and over like you could on PTD1. Well on Route 29 you will be able to repeat battles, catch new pokemon, hunt for shinys! I'm looking forward to making this and finally be able to see pokemon walking around in the wild instead of just having random battles. You will also get your PokePad which will act as a pokedex, a computer and it will also heal your pokemon between battles. Along with this I'll be working on getting your first party pokemon to walk behind you. If I have time I'll be adding the first Mystery Gift and the Trading Center for PTD2. Lots to do!

Look! 1v1 is evolving!I've decided to make some big changes to 1v1, remove a lot of the grinding and focus more on strategy and choices. This requires some shifts on how things work. I'm still thinking about it so not everything is finalized yet. But here are some of the things that will change:

There will be no more experience gained from defeating the enemy.

You will level up by using rare candies that are given out by beating levels.

When you use a checkpoint you will get the same amount of candies that you would have received if you have beaten all the way up to that point. So you can skip the previous levels and still have a powerful team.

Every pokemon will now start at level 5 and evolutions will not be available for unlocking.

I'm still figuring out what exactly I will do with the coins, but I have a few days to think about it. My main goal is to make it so it doesn't feel like you need to grind for the coins to be able to beat a level.So that is a little preview of what we have coming for you this week. Check out the weekly progress below to see how I'm doing during the week. I also added a new "My Status" which will tell you if I'm currently working or not.

Note: There was a bug with previous versions of the game. Some people when they play 1.18 Story Mode will be prompted to start their profile over again because of this bug. It will not affect everyone. The other option I had was to delete everybody's Story Mode Profiles which I don't want to do. So if you see the message just start your profile over again and everything will be fixed. If you don't see the message then just play as usual. Thanks!

Fix some typos (100%)

Slightly Decreased the HP boost on your rival's starter (100%)

Make the pokemon in your first party slot follow you in the map (100%) - Fun stuff but you won't be able to talk to it like in the other games.

Fix Map Issue in Elm's Lab on Story Mode (100%)

Fix Issue with Speed resetting between waves in Story Mode (100%)

Make Story level music stop playing when you leave story mode (100%)

New Story Level - Route 29 (70%)

Level Intro (100%)

Before you get the PokePad (100%)

After you get the PokePad (100%)

Implement PokePad (100%)

New Map (100%)

Battle Layout (100%)

Swarm Layout (100%) - Normal Tower defense fight

Single Layout (100%) - 1v1 style fight

Battle Waves (0%) - Both 1v1 and normal version for each pokemon

Pidgey (0%)

Rattata (0%)

Sentret (0%)

Pokemon Map Behavior (0%) - how the pokemon will behave in the map

Pidgey (0%)

Rattata (0%)

Sentret (0%)

Level Ending (100%)

Saving Extra Info for Pokemon (0%)

1v1 Mode Changes (0%)

PTD 2 Pokemon Center (0%)

Mystery Gift Screen (0%)

Add a graphic for removing a pokemon from the field (0%) - To better tell what is going on when fighting and NPC trainer.

Add new Level Item interface graphics for the ui (0%)

Added which pokemon you will be battling in the next battle in 1v1 mode (0%)

Make pressing Enter to trigger a lot of the menu buttons (0%) Pressing enter to log in instead of clicking on it.

Creature Universe Starting Locations!Like I've mentioned before each starting creature will have it's own starting location instead of have all 3 available in one town. What this means is that we can really do something special for the starting locations. Giving each of them their own unique style and appearance. For Creature Universe we really wanted to do something different. Instead of realistic towns that are... well kinda boring. We really wanted to do something interesting for each town. Below I will show you some sketches that our artist made to create the mood of each starting location. Keep in mind that these are concept sketches they don't represent the final look of the locations. Also some of these are there to strictly show an idea and not intended to look amazing. Keep that in mind!

First is the grass starter zone. The grass starter is the chameleon, they mostly live on trees so why not make the town live on top of trees.Not shown in the concept is the flooding that occurs during the rainy season which is the reason they build higher up and the water that is under the trees.

Work In Progress Concept of the Grass Starting zone

Then we have the fire starter zone. This place is more industrial, more gritty, it's a mining town. The fire starter zone will have a lush reservation area that the creatures live in that will be very contrasting with the rest of the zone. The fire koala family helps with refining the metals and treasures found in the mines. They also help create the steam that gives power to the town. I don't have a picture as the one I had didn't really show off the town it self but a mining cave.

Lastly the water starter zone. This place is more outdoors in a place surrounded by mountains. Not shown in the concept is a zone that is dried up due to recent droughts. This zone will be divided between a rich part and a poor part. The water buffalo need water to use water so even with them around they don't completely solve the drought problem as they can only use water in their supply to defend themselves and keep themselves hydrated while doing work like pushing carts and what not.

Work In Progress Concept of the Water Starter Zone

So there you have it! Three different concepts for the starting locations. Remember these were just for ideas and should give you a little sense of what each location will be like.

That is all we have for you this week. As always let us know what you think!

Hi everyone! Last week we had the second level of the story mode released. We got to walk around and talk to the citizens of New Bark Town and go on a little quest to save our starter. This is but the tip of the ice berg for story mode and hopefully you got a taste of what is to come. Did you like it better than the PTD1 style of just watching an intro playing the level and watching an ending? Let me know! Your feedback here in the comments, twitter, emails, facebook and on the forums help shape this game. Like I've said before I spend a good amount of time reading everything you guys write. I might not have enough time to answer them all like I used to but I do the best that I can to answer ones that are crucial or easy enough for a quick answer.

Okay so moving on to this week we will have both a new 1v1 level and a new story level! Lots of new content coming your way.

For both the Story and 1v1 level I will be adding some new technology to the game engine. I've been meaning to add this for a while but haven't had a lot of time. The new technology will be for the trainer you are battling against. Usually they will bring out a pokemon and you defeat that pokemon then they bring out their next one. It's very similar to how the waves work in PTD1 because I'm using the same engine for the trainers that I use in the waves. The new tech will be to allow for the trainers to have a team like you do and to be able to switch out pokemon in battle just like you can. Which will make the fights more interesting and dynamic.

Other than the new tech, 1v1 will now be headed to Route 3, we got some trainers to fight there and also a new pokemon to unlock. Can you guess who it is? All I can say is that it likes to sing a lot.

Speaking of sing, I will be making some changes to how the sleep mechanic works. Previously it would just put you to sleep for a certain amount of time regardless of how much damage you took. Now it will put you to sleep for a longer amount of time but taking damage will most likely cause you to wake up. Making it better for use against somebody that is attack you.

For the Story mode you will be challenged to your first fight. Speaking of this fight I've had reports of people finding an interesting way of leveling up your starter past level 7. This is pretty much my mistake so don't worry if you did it, I will be fixing it in the next version so it should no longer be possible.

Speaking of leveling, I also want to announce a new feature (inspired by my playing of Guild Wars 2)! In PTD1 you could very easily just level up enough so that a level was incredibly easy. In PTD2 there will be a limit as to how high you can be for each level to preserve that level's difficulty (to a point). So for example, lets say your starter is level 12 and you go into Route 29 (The first route in Johto). That means you would massively out level this stage. Most pokemon on this level will be level 2-4. What the game will do is temporarily turn your level 12 pokemon into a level 6 pokemon. Your pokemon will keeps its attacks, evolution, and abilities but it will have stats like it was level 6. Notice that the cap is higher than the highest level in the area but it is still within a certain range. Also since you get to keep your attacks and evolution you will still have an advantage. It just makes it so you can't simply steam roll everything once you get level 100 pokemon. What do you think?

I also plan to bring out the first Mystery Gift! We had a poll a while back and the first Mystery Gift for PTD 2 will be Zorua! Mystery Gift codes will be done a tiny bit different, you will still go to PlayTowerDefenseGames.com and try to figure out the code and you will also enter the code on that site's version of PTD2. Before you could go to any site and enter it but now it is exclusive to their site. Since most people would just find the code on a different site and just use it straight off without visiting our great sponsor.

Lastly I'll also be working on the PTD2 Pokemon Center. It will be very similar to the PTD1 but I still have to do a lot infrastructure changes. I don't think it will be out this week since I have so much to do but I hope to get a good amount done and who knows maybe it will be out too.

Alright so that was quite a bit of info. Let's look at the Weekly Progress list next. Also remember I update this while I'm working so make sure to come back every once in a while to see how I'm doing :)

Weekly Progress:

Alpha v1.18 New Story Mode Battle: Released now!

Fixed a bug with the Ability Intimidate that was preventing it from being applied to enemies that swapped into the battle

Fixed a bug that is preventing the Arena Trap Ability and other attacks that trap you from working on Enemie

Made it so Arena Trap will not work on pokemon that are immune to ground attacks

New Level Modifier Feature - This only applies for Story mode and not 1v1 mode.

Fixed a bug that was preventing players from completing the second quest on Story mode

Alpha v1.17 New 1v1 Level: Released now!

Added Sponsor Intro

Made starters have a chance to be both female and male instead of just male

Fixed a bug that allowed you to keep leveling up your starter

Moved the Back button in the story level to a different spot

Made it so if you aren't facing an NPC then you won't talk to it

Made it so bumping into an NPC will now make it stop and face you

Changed the Police officers text for when you are a female character

Limited the amount of potions you can have on you in 1v1 mode to 15 - This won't be like the rare candy where you can only buy 2. This means that you can only have a max of 15 on you at a time but if you use any of them you can go back to the max for the next level.

Made the Sleep status effect last 12 second but any damage taken has a 50% chance to awake up the target

Increased the cost of Kakuna, Metapod, Beedrill, and Butterfree in 1v1 mode to 25, 25, 45, and 45 respectively

Added New Pokemon to the game (3)

Graphics (100%)

Shiny Graphics (100%)

Shadow Graphics (100%)

Stats (100%)

Attack list (100%)

Evolution Information (100%)

Added New Attacks to the game

Sing

Pound

Disable

Wrap

Glare

Fake Tears

Fury Swipes

Added New Abilities to the game

Cute Charm

Friend Guard

Intimidate

Unnerve

Illusion

Added Gym Leader Checkpoints to 1v1 - Once you reach a gym leader you will be able to start playing at that gym leader battle.

Added New Trainer AI Feature - Very basic trainer AI, when his/her pokemon faints he will take out the next one. Implementing feature into the game engine.

Increased Coin rewards for any level that gave less than 20 coins to 20 coins - This is help reduce the feeling that you need to grind a lot for coins. This also helps balance the fact that you can only hold a certain number of potions on you in this update. I'll be keeping an eye on the numbers and will tweak as necessary.

Added New 1v1 Level

Intro

Level Layout

Level Waves

Previous Level Ending Text

Added New 1v1 Trainer AI - This is the AI for the trainer in the new level.

Changed PTD 1 link on the main screen to point to the sponsor's website.

Alright now let's talk a bit about Creature Universe TD. Many of you might not know but Dan and I hold team meetings every week. We chat with our artist about Creature Universe, we see what everybody is working on and talk about the design of the game. So for the last few weeks we have been talking about the types that we were going to use for Creature Universe. This hasn't been an easy task. We all had different opinions. Some of us wanted to remove some types. Others wanted to add even more types. In the end we started from the beginning and asked ourselves which types MUST be around. After we figured that out we went ahead and added some new ones, combined some other ones and even removed some. Here is the list of the types that will be in Creature Universe! Granted this list could still be tweaked in the future. But for now this is what we have decided.

Normal/Neutral - Unlike Pokemon this type will actually be Neutral to all other types. It has no weaknesses but also no advantages. This type will also be more limited than I pokemon where a bunch of creatures had this type along with another one. Fire/Flame - Pretty self explanatory. Water/Aquatic - See Fire.Grass/Plant - See Water.Electric/Lightning - See Grass.Air - This type is pretty much what flying is in pokemon.Ice - See Electric.Ground/Earth - This type combines what pokemon would have as Ground and Rock into one type.Metal - This is kinda like Steel, but it can be different metals. Basically very strong and sharp.Toxic - Like Poison type in pokemon but a lot better.Dark - Like Dark in Pokemon but this is the type you would see ghost show up in. Light - This type is something completely new. It's the counterpart of Dark. You would see more magical creatures like psychic show up with this type.Mythical - This is the type for legendary creatures. The plan we have for it is that it is very defensive against all types except for Neutral, Light and Dark. It also has no offensive advantages.

So these are out types! Something old, something new, something combined. It's got a little bit of everything. The only types advantage we have figured out are Mythical and Neutral since those are really different from the rest. We are still working on specific type charts for the rest so stay tuned for that later on. Or what kind of type charts can you guys come up with? I would love to see them with explanations as to why you did what you did.

Also creatures will have almost like secondary "types" we are calling it species. For example your creature can be a type Fire but it can also be a bug species. Being a bug will carry certain advantages or disadvantages. Other species might be like "reptile", "mammal". We are still working on this part but I just wanted to mention it so you guys knew about it.

Well that was a lot of info! I hope you guys have a good week this week and as always, let me know what you think!

Hey everyone! I hope you had/are having a good labor day weekend (in the states). I will keep this one pretty short and sweet.

Weekly Progress:This week we will have a 1v1 level (Released now on v1.15), we finally reached the first gym! Fighting against the Pewter City Gym Leader Brock. Something special about gym fights is that you will get an increase reward for beating them. For one, once achievements are out you will get an achievement for beating the gym and it will include a reward for your story mode profile. Also you will get more coins than usual, I haven't decided the exact amount. I was thinking either having a high flat amount, or a flat amount plus refunding whatever you spent, or a flat amount plus another amount or whatever you spent, whichever is lowest. I'm still working out the exact details but just know that beating the gym will boost up your coin amount since it is a pretty good place to reach. Also it will unlock either all the starters or just one I also haven't decided and I might put a pool up to see which starter should be out.On the story side of things I'm working towards level two which will have you getting your first starter pokemon. (Released now on v1.16) Last week I did a lot of the infrastructure for saving and creating maps and such. The more of that that I do the easier it will be to make new levels. I have redone a lot of the saving code to make it faster more efficient plus in PTD 2 story mode you have a map so I also have to keep track of where you are and things like what quest have you completed and what not. Before I would just keep track of level attempted and level completed. With this game things are more complicated so there is a lot more time spent building these extra things. I believe it will be worth it in the end since both PTD2 and Creature Universe will gain much from this.

So that is what I'm trying to accomplish this week, below is the actual list that I will keep updating by completing and adding new things.

NPC Characters for first level (100%)- Prof and other people that live in New Bark Town

Level 2 quest

Chikorita Quest (100%)

Cyndaquil Quest (100%)

Totodile Quest (100%)

Battle Intro (100%)

Battle Layout (100%)

Battle Waves (100%)

Battle Ending (100%)

Add the Town Music (100%)

Add Saving your pokemon's info (100%)

Alpha v1.15 New 1v1 Level: Released now!

Pewter City Gym Leader Battle 1v1 Mode

New Attacks Needed

Rock Tomb

Custom Onix Attack - Boulder Throw

Leech Seed

Vine Whip

Stun Spore

Pursuit

Mud-slap

New Abilities needed

Chlorophyll

Level Intro

Level Layout

Level Waves

Level Ending

New Item Unlocked

Implement Item

Add limits to how many you can buy of this item

New Pokemon Unlocked

Add Stats

Add Moves

Add Graphics

Allow for multiple pages in the pokemon/item store pages

Add the TM/HM screen to allow learning TMs and HMs - These will no longer cost money.

Guys I just want to thank you again for all the support, if it weren't for you guys going to the trading center, telling your friends about the game and visiting the blog we couldn't be doing any of this. I would be working a job that I would have no interest in and I wouldn't be able to make these games for you guys. Thanks again and as always.. let me know what you think!